Tide or wave motor.



- No. 817,318. PATENTED APR. 10, 1906.

G. W. HAZEL.

TIDE 0R WAVE MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1904.

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PATENTED APR. 10, 1906. G. W. HAZEL.

TIDE OR WAVE MOTOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1904.

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I NITED STATES PATENT TIDE OH WAVE MOTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 10, 1906.

Application filed August 9, 1904. Serial No. 220,111.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HAZEL, a

' citizen of the United States, and a resident of Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tide and Wave Motors,

of which the following is a specification.

The aim of my invention is to utilize the movements and motions of a floating bouyant body to convert the movement of said bouyant body into a power to be later utilized, and my invention embodies certain combinations described more fully hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown in Figure 1 a sectional view of a tide and wave motor with portions broken away embodying, my invention, while Fig.2 shows a top viewof my tide and wave motor.

In carrying out the aim of my invention I provide a bouyant body, such as a vessel A, of any suitable conformation, which vessel is divided by means of the air-tanks 20, 30, 40, and 50, as shown in Fig. 2, into a plurality of compartments, within which compartments are held suitable air-compressors, (marked 21, 31, 41, and 51 in the'drawings, where I have shown a vessel equipped with fourair-compressors.)

The vessel is secured and anchored by means of a plurality of slack side chains 3 3, fixed to suitable ears 1, forming part of the vessel, and which chains below are secured to suitable anchors 5, embedded within the" ocean or lakebed, as shown in Fig. 1. At the ends I also provide the slack anchorchains 4, secured to suitable anchors 5', as disclosed. 7 Now these slack retaining-chains secure the vessel in place but permit a movement of the vessel, allowing the same to'roek, rise, and fall within certain limits in obedience to .the action of the winds, swells, waves, and tides.

Placed within the, vessel are a plurality of air-compressors of an approved type, and a desciiilption of one in my drawings will apply to a have shown in the first com artment an aircompressor 21provided wit the up or intake-valves r and the lower intake-Va ves 1" while extending from the cylinder or aircompressor 21 are the exit-pipes 24 and 23, emptying into the air-tanks 20, these i es being provided with the usual valves. I'l ld within this air-compressor 21 isa suitable piston to the projecting stem 25 of which, by

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means of a pin 26, is secured the pitman 27, which above is secured to the crank-shaft 28, held within the hearings t, (shown in Fig. 2,) supported by means of the standards 25 and Secured to the crank-shaft 28 are two shives 29 and 29, over which suitable transmission-ropes, cables, or chains and 60 pass, in turn working over the shives 14 and 14', mounted upon a rock-shaft s, which rock-shaft is held within the bearings T, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and interposed between these hearings T is the pinion 15. Meshing with this pinion 15 is a rack-bar B, which rack bar below,by means of the pin 9, is secured to the member 8,held by means of the pin 7 between the ears 6 of the anchor a, so as to provide a universal connection between the bar B and the anchor a.

Secured to the side of the vessel at suitable points are the brackets b. and b. Secured to these brackets b and b, bymeans of the bolts 0 and c, are the holders n in the form of L-shaped hearings, to which holders 7?. are pivotally secured the sleeves ff, which, by means of the pins e e, are permitted a pivotal movement. Held within these pivotallysupported sleeves are the standards, (marked 13 upon one side and 13 upon the opposite,) these standards being bifurcated to provide suitable bearings T T, between which are held the pinions 15 and 15, mounted upon the shafts s and s, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the standards being secured by means of the nuts 12 and 12. Extending from the bearings T are the side plates D, provided with the pins 11, mounting suitable grooved pulleys p, against which pulleys the rack-bar B movement of this vessel will carry the pinions 15 15 upward or downward upon the relatively stationary rack-bars B B to rotate the shives 14 and 14" and 16 16", operating the strands 60 60 and 62 62 to rock the crank-shafts 28 and 38, resulting in the pistons within the air-compressors 21 and 31 eing carried 11 ward and downward to compress the air t ierein, which finds an escape throu h the pipes 23 24 and similar pipes 34 into t e air-tanks 20 and 30. In order to more fully utilize the movement of this buoyant vessel, I provide a plurality of aircompressors, as shown in Fig. 2, where I show the air-compressdrs 21, 31, 41, and 51 provided with similar connections, as shown.

Upon the opposite side the next air-compressor 31 is provided with the crank-shaft 38, the connections 62 and 62' working over the Wheels 16 and 16", these shives being secured to the shaft 8 to drive the pinion which pinion is held within the standards 13, provided with the hearings T, as shown. From these hearings T extend the plates '1), sup orting the pins 5, mounting the grooved pul eys p to guide the rack-bar B. The remaining air-compressors are provided with like parts and are similarly operated. From this it will be seen that in the vessel "constructed as shown in the drawings every movement of the vessel is by means of a mechanical transmission converted into a stored power re resented by the compressed air which is eing collected within the storagetanks, and these tanks may be arranged to be removed from the vessel to be replaced by empty tanks or the compressed air may be transferred from the same through suita hle hose to" any point Where the same may beused.

It is of course understood that the move- -ment of the rock-shafts s and s could be utilized to operate some other mechanical appliance, though I believe the best results are obtained in operatin an air-compressor. Having thus describe my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a buoyant vessel,

- a means to connect said vessel, a driving-shaftheld by said standard,

a pinion upon said driving-shaft, an air-conipressor secured to said drivin -shaft, and a movablyanchored rack -bar eld adjacent said buoyant vessel and actuating said pinion.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination with a suitably-anchored and movably-held rack-bar of a buoyant vessel, of a power mechanism within said vessel, a holder movably secured to said vessel, a shaft held bysaid holder, a pinion mounted upon said shaft and engaging said rack-bar, pinion to said power mechanism.

3. The combination with a suitable anchor, of slack chains extending from said anchor, a buoyant body secured to said slack chains, a power mechanism within said buoyant body, arack-bar swiveled to said anchor, a holder movably secured to said vessel, a shaft held by said holder, .a pinion mounted upon said shaft and meshing with said rack-bar, and a power transmission extending from said pinion to said power mechanism, all arranged as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. HAZEL. Witnesses:

GEORGE W. Sons, MAMin S. PoEnLs. 

